Pre-Hirnantian Ashgill climatically warm event in the Mediterranean region

Lethaia

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 119-131

  Boucot, A J ^a   Jia Yu, Rong ^b   Xu, Chen ^b   Scotese, C R ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ashgill; Brachiopods; Mediterranean region; Warm event

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BRACHIOPOD; FAUNA; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

BRACHIOPODA; HIRNANTIA;

EID: 0042243654     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00241160310001245     Document Type: Article

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